“I’m looking for my lost skin. Have you seen my lost skin? It was once very pretty. We were very close. I was really attached to it.” — Joseph Forbeck, as “Man with Scar Tissue.” In this photo, Forbeck in the process of having his makeup applied backstage by artist Sarah Nasatka. By John… Continue reading Outtakes: My night at Theatre ‘d Art’s ‘Marisol’
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Outtakes: My night at UC-CS’s “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson”
Sunday’s performance was preceded by a theater conversation between Kevin Landis, left; legendary Public Theatre producer Oskar Eustis, who brought “Bloody” to Broadway in 2010; and “Bloody” composer Michael Friedman. Watch for the video podcast to come. By John Moore March 20, 2013 Opening No. 46, “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson”: Students at the University… Continue reading Outtakes: My night at UC-CS’s “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson”
Outtakes: My night at the grand re-opening of The Edge Theatre
The Edge Theatre’s new storefront at 1560 Teller St. in Lakewood. The grand re-opening was marked on March 15 with a party and the opening performance of David Mamet’s “Race.” By John Moore March 20, 2013 Opening No. 45, “Race”: The Edge Theatre has moved 2 miles east, into a new, 99-seat theater in… Continue reading Outtakes: My night at the grand re-opening of The Edge Theatre
Magic Moments’ rotund roster includes some big-name local actors
It is not uncommon for more than 200 people to participate in the annual Magic Moments pop-rock revue. This year’s crew includes some established names in the local theater community, including Amy Board, Sarah Rex, Ronni Gallup, Keegan Flaugh, Mark Shonsey, Dana Hart Lubeck, Donna Debreceni, David Nehls and others. By John Moore March… Continue reading Magic Moments’ rotund roster includes some big-name local actors
Outtakes: My night at the Local Lab New Play Festival in Boulder
From left: Meridith Crosley Grundei, Lorenzo Gonzalez, Pun Bandhu, Rachel Fowler, George A. Keller and Belita Moreno read from Deborah Zoe Laufer’s Informed Consent.” By John Moore March 19, 2013 Opening No. 44, Local Lab New Play Festival: The Local Lab is an annual weekend of three new American play readings at the picturesque… Continue reading Outtakes: My night at the Local Lab New Play Festival in Boulder
Video, photos: Elin Palmer and Joshua Novak at the Walnut Room
Video of Elin Palmer at the Walnut Room on March 14, 2013. By John Moore March 15, 2013 The handful of sagacious local-music aficionados who are not in Austin for South by Southwest were treated last night to sets by two of Denver’s most admired and crushworthy artists, Elin Palmer and Joshua Novak, at… Continue reading Video, photos: Elin Palmer and Joshua Novak at the Walnut Room
Outtakes: My night at Lakewood High School’s ‘Les Misérables’
Connor Kingsley, center, who plays Marius, gathers the cast in the hallway outside the school auditorium to salute director Tami LoSasso after an ambitious opening performance of “Les Misérables” on March 13. By John Moore, March 14, 2013 My ongoing, 2013 labor-of-love photo series, “It’s Opening Night in Colorado Theater,” brings you one intimate,… Continue reading Outtakes: My night at Lakewood High School’s ‘Les Misérables’
Photos: My day at ‘Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse’
Stage manager Emily MacIntyre has no defense for Brian Landis Folkins’ whiskery charms before Sunday’s first public performance of the Denver Children’s Theatre’s “Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse” at the Mizel Arts and Culture Center. By John Moore March 13, 2013 Opening No. 41, “Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse”: “Lilly” is back for a second staging… Continue reading Photos: My day at ‘Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse’
Photos: My night at the Galleria’s ‘The Doyle & Debbie Show’
By John Moore March 13, 2013 Opening No. 39, “The Doyle & Debbie Show”: The latest cabaret show to move into the Garner-Galleria is this simultaneous homage to, and parody of, country music’s iconic duos. Doyle Mayfield, an old-guard country star with a handful of old-school hits, is reviving his career — 30 years,… Continue reading Photos: My night at the Galleria’s ‘The Doyle & Debbie Show’
Photos and video podcast: Re-opening of Equinox’s ‘Bat Boy, the Musical’
Here’s our video podcast reporting from the “re-opening” of “Bat Boy, the Musical” on March 8, 2013. By John Moore March 5, 2013 Opening No. 38, “Bat Boy, the Musical”: Let’s call this one a “re-opening.” On Feb. 20, after a sold-out opening weekend at the Bug Theatre, the cast and crew of the… Continue reading Photos and video podcast: Re-opening of Equinox’s ‘Bat Boy, the Musical’
Photo series: My night at Silhouette’s ‘This is How it Goes’
It’s the job of stage manager Amy Brosius to convert the John Hand Theatre stage from the Spotlight Theatre’s afternoon performance of “The Front Page” to the evening playing of Silhouette Theatre’s “This is How it Goes.” The companies share resources and like-mindedness with the Firehouse Theatre. Paul Jaquith’s Silhouette troupe gravitates more toward the… Continue reading Photo series: My night at Silhouette’s ‘This is How it Goes’
Photo series: My night at the Catamounts’ ‘Jon’
By John Moore March 5, 2013 Opening No. 35: The Catamounts’ “Jon” is a Vonnegut-like, possibly futuristic (possibly not) allegory based on a New Yorker short story written by a one-time engineering student from the Colorado School of Mines named George Saunders. In it, trendy youth are raised from birth to serve as perpetual… Continue reading Photo series: My night at the Catamounts’ ‘Jon’
Photo series: My night at the University of Denver’s ‘Fiddler on the Roof’
Director Pamyla Stiehl laid out a table of candies and candles for her cast and crew to enjoy in a backstage hallway just before the opening performance of “Fiddler on the Roof” began at the University of Denver last Thursday. By John Moore Feb. 27, 2013 Opening No. 34: One of the many great… Continue reading Photo series: My night at the University of Denver’s ‘Fiddler on the Roof’
Photos: Shelly Bordas benefit performances raise money, lift hearts
The video above is Part 2 from my ongoing video documentary, “The Shelly Bordas Story.” By John Moore March 4, 2013 Back-to-back benefits for Shelly Bordas on Sunday and Monday nights brought grassroots fundraising efforts to help the cancer-stricken Denver mother, teacher and actor to nearly $30,000. On Sunday, a concert organized by Mitch… Continue reading Photos: Shelly Bordas benefit performances raise money, lift hearts
Photo series: My night at Boulder’s Dinner Theatre’s ‘Church Basement Ladies’
Veteran actors Barb Reeves and Bren. (yes that’s a period) Eyestone Burron put on a bit of a rural midwestern church-like fashion show backstage in the moments before taking the stage in Boulder’s Dinner Theatre’s regional premiere of the family musical, “Church Basement Ladies.” Hubba, hubba! By John Moore Feb. 27, 2013 Opening No.… Continue reading Photo series: My night at Boulder’s Dinner Theatre’s ‘Church Basement Ladies’
Photos: My night at Town Hall Arts Center’s “9 to 5”
The opening night curtain call for the “9 to 5” cast on Feb. 22, 2013. By John Moore Feb. 26, 2013 Opening No. 32: The Littleton Town Hall Arts Center cast and crew had to work some overtime to pull off its regional premiere of “9 to 5,” the stage adaptation of the 1980… Continue reading Photos: My night at Town Hall Arts Center’s “9 to 5”
Photos: My night at the Aurora Fox’s ‘Consider the Oyster’
A view of the opening-night party from behind the “Consider the Oyster” set, shot through the cut-out window of a Detroit skyscraper. Very cool set design by Shaun Albrechtson. By John Moore Feb. 19, 2013 Opening No. 30: “Consider the Oyster” is a gender-bending comic fantasy developed by Jeff Daniels’ Purple Rose Theatre Company in… Continue reading Photos: My night at the Aurora Fox’s ‘Consider the Oyster’
Photos: My night at LIDA Project’s ‘R.U.R./lol’
By John Moore Feb. 19, 2013 Opening No. 29: Denver’s oldest and really only true experimental theater company is the LIDA Project. Its newest original work, “R.O.R./lol,” picks up where Czech playwright Karel Capek’s 1920 science-fiction play “Rossum’s Universal Robots” ends. That play is actually where the word “robot” was introduced into the lexicon. LIDA’s… Continue reading Photos: My night at LIDA Project’s ‘R.U.R./lol’
2013 theater photo series: It’s Opening Night in Colorado
By John Moore Jan. 1, 2014 Welcome to my 2013 labor-of-love photo series bringing you iconic snapshots from behind the scenes on opening nights in Colorado theater. This series includes one representative shot from 151 of the performances we saw 2013. The intent was to allow the reader a window into a part of the… Continue reading 2013 theater photo series: It’s Opening Night in Colorado
Photos: My night at Heritage Square’s ‘One Enchanted Evening’
Heritage Square Music Hall co-owner T.J. Mullin told the opening-night audience of “One Enchanted Evening” that the company’s 25th season will be its last in Golden. By John Moore Feb. 16, 2013 Opening No. 28: The Heritage Square Music Hall opened its 25th and, sadly, final season on Valentine’s Day. Co-owners Connie Helsley and… Continue reading Photos: My night at Heritage Square’s ‘One Enchanted Evening’
Photos: My night at Germinal’s ‘Spoon River Anthology’
Actor Jim Miller made spoons adorned with individual faces as opening-night gifts for every cast and crewmember working on the Germinal Stage-Denver’s “Spoon River Anthology.” By John Moore Feb. 15, 2013 Opening No. 27, Feb. 10: Germinal Stage-Denver’s final season in its longtime northwest Denver home continues with its third staging of “Spoon River… Continue reading Photos: My night at Germinal’s ‘Spoon River Anthology’
Photos: My night at Performance Now’s ‘Once Upon a Mattress’
Laura Kimberlin brings beauty down to her fingertips to the orchestra pit at the Lakewood Cultural Center. She plays woodwinds as part of a seven-piece live orchestra for “Once Upon a Mattress.” By John Moore Feb. 11, 2013 “Once Upon a Mattress” is the classic musical retelling of “The Princess and the Pea,” in… Continue reading Photos: My night at Performance Now’s ‘Once Upon a Mattress’
Photos: My night at Dangerous Theatre’s ‘Dark Wood’
By John Moore Feb. 11, 2013 The sign as you enter the Dangerous Theatre, above, means it: “Seriously! Lots of nudity. Not a quick peek. Full frontal nudity for the ENTIRE SHOW.” And it’s not just for titillation. Peter McGarry’s “Dark Wood” is a legitimate, serio-comic play that finds three apes together in a… Continue reading Photos: My night at Dangerous Theatre’s ‘Dark Wood’
Photos: My night with ‘The Seafarer’ at the Aurora Fox
Booze: Beer, whiskey, poteen, you name it — is everywhere to be found on the set of “The Seafarer.” By John Moore Feb. 12, 2013 Here are bonus images from my brief visit backstage at Ashton Entertainment’s “The Seafarer” on Feb. 8 at the Aurora Fox. It was a long road bringing Conor McPherson’s… Continue reading Photos: My night with ‘The Seafarer’ at the Aurora Fox
Photos: My night at Backstage’s ‘Out of Order’ in Breckenridge
By John Moore Feb. 11, 2013 Here are bonus images from my night visiting the cast of the Backstage’s Theatre’s “Out of Order” after their first performance in front of an audience on Feb. 7. It’s a prototypical Ray Cooney farce harpooning a government official whose plans for an extramarital dalliance in a London hotel… Continue reading Photos: My night at Backstage’s ‘Out of Order’ in Breckenridge
Photos: My night at “Red” and “Prelude to a Kiss” in Colorado Springs
By John Moore Feb. 6, 2013 Here are bonus images from my night visiting the casts of Colorado Springs TheatreWorks’ “Red” and the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center’s “Prelude to a Kiss.” John Logan’s celebrated “Red” is a charged dialogue between the manic – and egomaniacal – abstract expressionist Mark Rothko, and his young… Continue reading Photos: My night at “Red” and “Prelude to a Kiss” in Colorado Springs
Photos: My night at Boulder Ensemble’s ‘Ghost-Writer’
By John Moore Feb. 6, 2013 Here are bonus images from my night visiting the cast before the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company’s performance of “Ghost-Writer” on Feb. 2 at the Dairy Center for the Arts. In the play, a mystery set in 1919, Jim Hunt plays deceased novelist Franklin Woolsey, who may (or may… Continue reading Photos: My night at Boulder Ensemble’s ‘Ghost-Writer’
Bonus photos: My day with Constantine Maroulis, Deborah Cox and ‘Jekyll & Hyde’
By John Moore Feb. 2, 2013 Here are bonus images from my night visiting the cast of the Broadway-bound musical “Jekyll & Hyde,” featuring Constantine Maroulis (last seen here in “Rock of Ages”) and R&B star Deborah Cox, backstage at Denver’s Buell Theatre. This re-imagined production, which opens on Broadway on April 18, fits… Continue reading Bonus photos: My day with Constantine Maroulis, Deborah Cox and ‘Jekyll & Hyde’
Bonus photos: My night at ‘Noises Off’ in Lone Tree
The opening night of “Noises Off” at the Lone Tree Arts Center had a well-known guest, and not just local actor Carla Kaiser Kotrc, left. Joining director Nick Sugar (center) was film and TV star John Carroll Lynch, a Denver native and Regis High grad who performed in plays and musicals with Sugar (and me)… Continue reading Bonus photos: My night at ‘Noises Off’ in Lone Tree
Bonus photos: My night at Buntport Theater’s ‘Wake’
By John Moore Jan. 31, 2013 Here are some bonus images from my night visiting the cast of Buntport Theater’s ambitious original play, “Wake.” It’s a Beckett-like reimagining of “The Tempest,” in which the storm and subsequent shipwreck that drive Shakespeare’s love story never come. Featuring Erik Edborg, Erin Rollman, Brian Colonna and Adam… Continue reading Bonus photos: My night at Buntport Theater’s ‘Wake’